3-letter words containing r
- brr — used when one feels cold
- brs — Big Red Switch
- brt — be right there
- bru — Brunei (international car registration)
- bur — a seed vessel or flower head, as of burdock, having hooks or prickles
- bwr — boiling-water reactor
- car — a self-propelled road vehicle designed to carry passengers, esp one with four wheels that is powered by an internal-combustion engine
- cbr — chemical, bacteriological, or radiological
- ccr — 1. condition code register. 2. (Database) concurrency control and recovery.
- cdr — Cdr is the written abbreviation for commander when it is used as a title.
- cer — Closer Economic Relations: a trade agreement between Australia and New Zealand signed in 1983
- chr — Christian
- cir — Committed Information Rate
- clr — Consortium for Lexical Research
- cnr — Canadian National Railways
- cor — You can say cor when you are surprised or impressed.
- cpr — CPR is a medical technique for reviving someone whose heart has stopped beating by pressing on their chest and breathing into their mouth. CPR is an abbreviation for cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- crb — (in Britain) Criminal Records Bureau
- crc — cyclic redundancy check
- crd — customer relations department
- cre — Commission for Racial Equality
- cri — Crown Research Institutes
- crl — Carnegie Representation Language.
- crm — customer relationship management
- cro — cathode-ray oscilloscope
- crp — Central Reserve Police
- crs — creditors
- crt — cathode-ray tube
- cru — (in France) a vineyard, group of vineyards, or wine-producing region
- cry — When you cry, tears come from your eyes, usually because you are unhappy or hurt.
- csr — Colonial Sugar Refining Company
- ctr — Control Traffic Zone: an area established around an airport to afford protection to aircraft entering or leaving the terminal area
- cur — A cur is an unfriendly dog, especially a mongrel.
- dar — Daughters of the American Revolution
- ddr — Deutsche Demokratische Republik (the former East Germany; GDR)
- der — Distinguished Encoding Rules
- dgr — Dancer Group Representative
- dir — Direct.
- dlr — dealer
- dnr — do not resuscitate
- dor — mockery; scorn.
- dre — direct recording electronic: a system of voting in elections in which voters enter choices using an electronic device such as a touchscreen
- drg — any of the diagnostic categories in a system of Medicare reimbursement to hospitals: rates are determined by the average cost of treatment, hospital stay, etc. for a specific problem or category
- drm — 1. Digital Rights Management 2. Digital Radio Mondiale
- dro — Abbreviation of hydroponic.
- dry — free from moisture or excess moisture; not moist; not wet: a dry towel; dry air.
- dtr — Data Terminal Ready
- dur — (in music) written in a major key; major.
- dvr — digital video recorder
- ear — the part of a cereal plant, as corn, wheat, etc., that contains the flowers and hence the fruit, grains, or kernels.